Revolutionary America Revolutionary America The Constitution 1 The Constitution 2 ?

The colonists formed these organizations to aid in quickly exchanging written communications between the colonies

Committees of Correspondence

The pamphlet Common Sense, written by this man, moved many Americans to support independence

Thomas Paine

Signed on July 4, 1776, this document declared that the colonies were free and independent

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson borrowed from the writings of this English philosopher when he drafted the Declaration of Independence

John Locke

This head of the Continental Army would go on to serve as the first President of the United States of America

George Washington

On Christmas night 1776, Washington led his troops across this river and launched a surprise attack on Hessian mercenaries fighting for the British

Delaware River

Almost 4,000 Continental soldiers were too weak or ill to fight after spending the winter of in this winter camp

Valley Forge

This Frenchman fought for America and was instrumental in securing France’s continued support for the war

Marquis de Lafayette

This British general developed the southern strategy, but would ultimately surrender his army after his defeat at Yorktown

General Charles Cornwallis

This treaty ended the Revolutionary War and acknowledged the independence of the colonies

1783 Treaty of Paris

This document, written during the Revolution, created a government that lacked the power to tax or regulate commerce

The Articles of Confederation

This protest by debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers illuminated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Shays’s Rebellion

This agreement at the Constitutional Convention solved the dispute between large and small states by establishing a bicameral legislature with each state having equal representation in the Senate

The Great Compromise

The Three-Fifths Compromise allowed the states to count three- fifths of these people when calculating their entire populations for representation

Slaves

The fear of a strong central government led the framers of the Constitution to create a government with a separation of

powers

The concept of checks and balances within government was first proposed by the French political thinker Charles de

Montesquieu

To reassure people that the new government would not be too powerful, the framers of the Constitution created this type of government with divided powers

limited

These are the three branches of government created at the Constitutional Convention

Executive Legislative Judicial

These people advocated a strong central government with power over the states

The Federalists

These people opposed the Federalists, advocating a weaker central government

Anti-Federalists

In his farewell address, President Washington warned of the danger of political parties also known as these

factions

The election of 1796 was a bitter contest between Thomas Jefferson and this man who would have his administration plagued by bitter conflicts with France and Great Britain

John Adams

This law encouraged westward expansion and outlined the procedure for the admittance of new states to the Union

Northwest Ordinance

President Washington himself led a large militia force that put down this rebellion of farmers protesting taxes. His actions showed the power of the Federal Government to enforce the law.

The Whiskey Rebellion

A co-author of the Federalist papers, this man would serve as the first Secretary of the Treasury

Alexander Hamilton